When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
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It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?Knut Hamsun
Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness.
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No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
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I no longer have my feet planted on the ground, I am walking on air, my head is spinning. It is not easy to be myself right now.
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However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
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I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.
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